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From Social Invisibility to Legal Recognition: Same-Sex Partnership in Latvia Cover

From Social Invisibility to Legal Recognition: Same-Sex Partnership in Latvia

Open Access
|Apr 2025

Abstract

The authors offer a deep insight into the recent development of same-sex partnership regulation in Latvia. The judgments of the Constitutional Court of 12 November 2020 and 8 April 2021 required the guarantee of legal, social and economic protection for same-sex families and respect for their human dignity. In response to these judgments, the Saeima adopted same-sex partnership legislation on 9 November 2023. The authors analyse the content of these regulations and the previous legislative discussions that led to the adoption of this law. The implementation of the Constitutional Court judgments was ensured by the administrative courts in specific cases even before the Saeima adopted the relevant laws. According to the judgment of the Supreme Court of 10 December 2021, the administrative courts began to recognize same-sex families legally. Relevant case law is also analysed in this article.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15290/bsp.2025.30.01.01 | Journal eISSN: 2719-9452 | Journal ISSN: 1689-7404
Language: English, Polish
Page range: 9 - 31
Submitted on: Jun 30, 2024
Accepted on: Feb 2, 2025
Published on: Apr 4, 2025
Published by: University of Białystok
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 4 issues per year

© 2025 Andrzej Jackiewicz, Kalvis Engīzers, Jānis Pleps, Anna Rytel-Warzocha, published by University of Białystok
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